Hawkes v Manawatu

[Canes4life]

Vijoen has a beautiful box kick on him.

[Canes4life]

@Stargazer interesting, now that he’s matured quite a lot I’d say a few franchises will be after his signature.

[Canes4life]

Lovely delayed pass by Tiatia.

[Steven Harris]

That defence was about as soft as you would ever see

[Nepia]

@Steven-Harris said in Hawkes v Manawatu:

That defence was about as soft as you would ever see

Good game for our awful for and against.

[Stargazer]

Sam Wye scores his first NPC and Magpies try.

[Stargazer]

That was great work from McClutchie again.

[Nepia]

Good win, although the Poo were awful. Can't read that much into that game but helps keep us in the top 8.

Might be a good confidence booster for the team too.

[Stargazer]

@Nepia As you wrote earlier, it's good for our points differential, which is now finally in the plus!

[Stargazer]

McClutchie got the 3 Duane Monkley medal points.
Didn't hear who got the 2 and who the 1.

[Number 10]

Flanders was rested this week, will be playing next week v Southland.

Fakatava was not available this week - he is in Fiji attending his brother’s wedding. I wonder if he would have gone to his brother’s wedding if he was in the AB’s in France ….

[Higgins]

@Nepia said in Hawkes v Manawatu:

Bit of a harsh yellow on first viewing.

Edit: Looks fair on second viewing.

Nothing lucky about it, in fact people sitting very near where I was were baying for a penalty try.

[Higgins]

@Nepia said in Hawkes v Manawatu:

@Stargazer said in Hawkes v Manawatu:

The comeback is on?

Yep, if we have the ball then we're all good, when we don't have the ball we're keystone cops. They haven't listened to me when I've said they should just be training defence each week.

Olly Sapsford was massively improved on defence compared to the turnstyle he impersonated last week so that was something to be a but happier about.

[Stargazer]

[Higgins]

The revised supporter tactics devised by @Stockcar86 and myself were never put to the test such was the whirlwind start made by the Magpies which saw us up by about thirty within fifteen or twenty minutes and the game was well and truly over by then. They were well thought out and would have worked a treat but as they say we kept out powder dry for later use. About twenty or thirty 'Poo supporters were made the error of taking up seats nearby but we were very magnanimous about things, even going so far as offering them our congratulations when they got off zero. We generally left them alone to suffer in their teams ineptness with no need for us to inflict further torment onto their team!
The visitors did offer a bit of resistance after the initial onslaught as witnessed by keeping the score to a mere fifty when @Donsteppa so wisely pointed out earlier that a century looked a real possibility. It might well have been but we lost track of the number of tries called back for disputed reasons. All in all it was a game that lacked something, the close exciting finishes we have come to expect at McLean Park this season but considering it was against the 'Poo we can live quite comfortably with that!